Thermoelectrics Could Let You Feel the Heat In Games 102
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myshadows writes "Tech Review has an interesting article on how Tokyo Metropolitan University researchers have been able to give a sensory addition to gaming peripherals — namely, temperature. 'As the range of interactions with digital environments expands, it's logical to ask what's next: Smell-o-vision has been on the horizon for something like 50 years, but there's a dark horse stalking this race: thermoelectrics. Based on the Peltier effect, these solid-state devices are easy to incorporate into objects of reasonable size, i.e. video game controllers. In this configuration, just announced at the 2010 SIGGRAPH conference, a pair of thermoelectric surfaces on either side of a controller rapidly heat up or cool down in order to simulate appropriate conditions in a virtual environment.'"
Re:Watch where you put that! (Score:5, Funny)
Truth be told, I have not yet been able to verify my hypothesis on this matter with a willing test subject.
What could possibly go wrong? (Score:4, Funny)
As I'm hit and fall into the pit of lava, the safety overrides fail and suddenly, yeah, my peripherals are trying their best to get me up to a thousand degrees C.
THIS is why I continue to play Nethack.
You will be baked (Score:5, Funny)
Electric charge (Score:4, Funny)
Wouldn't it be lovely if the controller could deal electric shocks? Or pretend-drown the player? "Because we can" isn't always sufficient justification.
Re:What could possibly go wrong? (Score:3, Funny)
As I'm hit and fall into the pit of lava, the safety overrides fail and suddenly, yeah, my peripherals are trying their best to get me up to a thousand degrees C. THIS is why I continue to play Nethack.
The controller suddenly welds itself to your hand! Do you want your possessions identified?
Re:I think the air force tried something like this (Score:1, Funny)
I think Joe The Dragon tried to rape a small child once.
Random, vague, unverifiable claims are fun.
Re:You will be baked (Score:4, Funny)
The cake is a lie.
In Soviet Russia, (Score:2, Funny)
Re:For an even greater sensation... (Score:3, Funny)
Only if you are human [wikipedia.org].